Example sentences of "[verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historic town of Great Malvern , 7 miles away , came into prominence through its spa waters in the 18th and 19th centuries , although its origins as several disconnected villages are much earlier ; indeed its beautiful priory church was completed by craftsmen in 1460 . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
| 3 | Its reputation was lifted in the sixteenth century , when Marguerite de Navarre came here and ( perhaps ) wrote some of her Heptameron , as a respite from the rigours of the cure , before the atrocious weather — in the prologue she quickly complains of the rainfall in Cauterets — drove her down to Sarrance . |
| 4 | A FLOOD of new weekly television listings magazines will hit the market when what the Home Secretary calls the ‘ dotty ’ restriction on advance use of programme schedules is lifted in the next parliamentary session . |
| 5 | There were other cases where the name of the rape survivor was not disclosed in the first press report but a few weeks later , the name would suddenly appear in front of several million readers . |
| 6 | The first of these was the intense interest in , and massive support for , subject-based curriculum change particularly in Mathematics and Science which originated in the late nineteen-fifties in the United States , largely as a result of a realisation of the enormous gaps which were opening between what university research workers were examining and what schools taught , between the demands of a computer based technology and the realities of a curriculum designed in the nineteenth century to serve a nation of shopkeepers . |
| 7 | This time , our pattern will be displayed with all that was originally designed in the second colour , transcribed to black on the screen . |
| 8 | He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users . |
| 9 | According to the Roman writer Pausanias , the temple of Apollo Epicurius was designed in the fifth century BC by Ictinus , one of the architects of the Parthenon . |
| 10 | ‘ Modern ’ type-faces , first designed in the 18th century by men like Bodoni and Baskerville , emphasised the contrast between the thick and thin parts of a letter . |
| 11 | And finally , social citizenship rights , on a range from ‘ the right to a modicum of economic wealth and security ’ to ‘ the right to share to the full in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized being according to the standards prevailing in society ’ were won in the twentieth century , especially in the post-war period when the welfare state was extended so that all were guaranteed education , health care and a ‘ safety net ’ of financial provision through what was then ‘ national assistance ’ . |
| 12 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
| 13 | Political citizenship rights , notably the right to vote and to stand for election , were won in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth as the Representation of the People Acts extended the franchise by stages until universal adult suffrage had been achieved . |
| 14 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
| 15 | They 'd probably be better off on the erm soft going tonight , but erm in the past few results erm it 's been evenly balanced Peter , you know , but every trap 's won in the last two or three meetings . |
| 16 | The campaign to maximise the impact of the opposition parties ' votes in terms of seats won in the next election should begin now . |
| 17 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 18 | Hinde House was one of ten comprehensive schools approached in the first year with a view to the launching of a school/industry partnership . |
| 19 | Having reviewed the authorities which dealt with the construction of restraint of trade clauses , the court applied the following rules : ( a ) The question of construction should be approached in the first instance without regard to the question of legality or illegality. ( b ) The clause should be construed with reference to the object sought to be obtained . |
| 20 | It was an appalling mistake for the city to be attacked in the first place . |
| 21 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
| 22 | 1990-91commitments in support of macroeconomic and structural policies totalled only SDR5,600 million , two-thirds of which had been committed in the last four months to five countries — Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland and Romania . |
| 23 | The Spennymoor super heavyweight forced the referee to step in after Hopper had pounded the more fancied Craig Parsons of Brighton into three standing counts in the second round . |
| 24 | It seems reasonable to suggest that the natural theme we is omitted in the second sentence in order to foreground the rheme . |
| 25 | ‘ I was always proud to play for my country and I 'm baffled why I should have been omitted in the first place , for the linesman incident was trivial . |
| 26 | the subject areas omitted in the first place ; |
| 27 | Buffalo will know in the next couple of days whether Kelly will be fit to face Houston again in the first round of the play-offs next weekend . |
| 28 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 29 | The origin of a different approach lies in the mid-nineteenth century in Lumley v. Gye . |
| 30 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |